Türkiye'de Sağlık Turizmi ile İlgili Çalışmaların AHP-TOPSIS Yöntemleri ile Değerlendirilmesi

The importance and extent of health tourism are increasing day by day globally. This sector provides an important source of income particularly for developing countries, making a serious contribution to the country’s promotion and revitalization of other sectors. Although health tourism has emerged as a major sector in Türkiye in recent years, the existing literature in this field is far from complete. This paper aims to discuss and analyse relevant publications regarding the health tourism sector in Türkiye via the use of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques. In the first part of this paper, the studies in the field of health tourism in Türkiye between 2007 and 2022 are examined and categorized providing a comprehensive guide for researchers about the subfields emerging in the area. In the second part of the article, the publications examined in the first part are evaluated by using MCDM techniques according to five criteria. These are the weight of the quartiles range, the index the journal was scanned, the publication year, the use of data and whether it was an application article or not, and the content. The weights of these five criteria are calculated by the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. Afterwards, the articles are sorted by using the Technique for Order Preference Similarity to Ideal Solutions (TOPSIS). The listed articles are divided into groups A, B, and C, ranging from the most impactful to the least. Thus, the publications that would primarily be of interest to the researchers aiming to work in the field of health tourism in Türkiye have been put forward with a scientific method.